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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Graspables revisited: multi-touch vs. tangible input for tabletop displays in acquisition and manipulation tasks
We present an experimental comparison of multi-touch and tangible user interfaces for basic interface actions. Twelve participants completed manipulation and acquisition tasks on ...
Philip Tuddenham, David S. Kirk, Shahram Izadi
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
America is like Metamucil: fostering critical and creative thinking about metaphor in political blogs
Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium-socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such anal...
Eric P. S. Baumer, Jordan Sinclair, Bill Tomlinson
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa
We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for `...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Thomas Reitmaier, Gary Marsden,...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Multitasking bar: prototype and evaluation of introducing the task concept into a browser
This paper clarifies two common patterns of multitasking on the Web, namely Multiple Tasks (MT) and Multiple Session Task (MST). To support both of these, the task concept needs t...
Qing Wang, Huiyou Chang
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
How routine learners can support family coordination
Researchers have detailed the importance of routines in how people live and work, while also cautioning system designers about the importance of people's idiosyncratic behavi...
Scott Davidoff, John Zimmerman, Anind K. Dey
ACMIDC
2010
14 years 24 days ago
Make a Riddle and TeleStory: designing children's applications for the siftables platform
We present the design of Make a Riddle and TeleStory, educational applications developed on the Siftables platform for children aged 4-7 years. Siftables are hybrid tangible-g...
Seth Hunter, Jeevan J. Kalanithi, David Merrill
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Creating a rural community display with local engagement
We present our experiences of using an iterative, prototypedriven approach to developing social systems with the participation of communities, inspired by probe-based methodologie...
Nick Taylor 0002, Keith Cheverst
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Watt-Lite: energy statistics made tangible
Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour in the workplace has a large potential for reducing electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the environment ...
Li Jönsson, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
On the design of a "moody" keyboard
To counter the increasing number of online threats for users' privacy and security, this paper explores the design of an ambient security indicator, in form of a standard key...
Alexander De Luca, Bernhard Frauendienst, Max-Eman...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Design from the everyday: continuously evolving, embedded exploratory prototypes
One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...
Clint Heyer, Margot Brereton